I've somehow reached a stage where if I get an offer from TCS telling me that I'd be paid double the salary I'm getting now and the work there would be more interesting and challenging besides the offer meeting all my other criteria, I think I would still think thrice. I hope I'm not offending anyone who is happy to be a part of the company. My opinion is totally based on what I've seen and experienced so far.
They've hardly done anything right so far when it comes to employing my batch-mates all over the state. First they blackmail all colleges telling them that if they allow any other companies to conduct interviews for the students before TCS visits the college, they'd not visit their college. This ofcourse, is accompanied by a more-likely-false promise that they'd take maximum number of students possible when they come. Worse, they even assure the minimum number of students they are going to employ. This, they do without even knowing how good the students are! Few colleges which consider themselves capable enough of meeting their 'target' even without TCS don't care while other poor colleges whose placement officers generally lose hair worrying about how they would meet the 'target' set 'just-like-that' by their college's Principal or Secretary considering that the number of people who get jobs on campus this year would largely determine the demand for their college next year will completely surrender.
Second, they do not inform the exact date of interviews for each college till the nth moment. Students at college though not necessary, suffer from anxiety with plenty of rumors adding to their confusion. At my college, they said they'd come by November and they kept postponing and finally arrived in January. The number of people they employ would be always lesser than the number they promise. The placement officer, happy on one side that students under him got a job somehow, sad on the other side that TCS didn't keep up the promise, wouldn't know what to answer if someone asks him what emotion triggered him to drink so much that night.
They go around employing people in various colleges and once they are done, they start giving joining dates in 'batches'. Then the next phase of confusion begins. A was selected much before B but B was called first. X was too good in coding and was put into infrastructure services whereas C can't write C code and was taken for development team. The joining dates and the domains assigned are extremely random. Plus, they take almost a year and sometimes even more to announce joining dates.
Students on the other side complete their B.E/Btech, sit at home, waiting for the joining letter and gain weight. A few, somehow find a way to get a job outside and escape while most of them decide that they are going to stay at home till they are called thus wasting a year. Even worse, those who try to get a job somewhere else, if are expected to obtain a letter or something from college do not get it from college because TCS blackmails the college that if the students that they have so mercifully selected in a college join somewhere else, TCS shall not visit that college next year! So the placement officer tells ( this happened with me) "No No, I can't give you the letter. Go join TCS or get into some other company on your own if you can".
All those who get selected are entitled to sign a Rs 50,000 bond saying that they'd not leave the company before two years but generally, it is said that it wouldn't be a big problem if someone leaves in between. So I assume this whole bond-thing is only to scare people. Now one of my friends left the company after 3 months of training just before they were about to tell her the post-training work location. (TCS doesn't train people! they outsource it, at least for infrastructure services). She did it deciding we'll 'handle' whatever happens later. Now while I was waiting to see how TCS would react to this, there was no reaction for three months after which she got a notice saying she had to join immediately failing which action shall be taken. Not surprising I thought and asked her to ignore it. The surprise was something else. When she checked her salary-account balance just to see if her account is still active after three months, she noticed that her beloved company has been actually crediting her salary every month though she hasn't even reported to job! Poor kid, she doesn't know whether she can withdraw the amount now.
I've seriously doubted their standards right from my college days. There are hell lot of loopholes in their functioning specially when it comes to recruitment and post-recruitment formalities. I just hope they get them right someday. I'm waiting to see how they would deal with her now.
They've hardly done anything right so far when it comes to employing my batch-mates all over the state. First they blackmail all colleges telling them that if they allow any other companies to conduct interviews for the students before TCS visits the college, they'd not visit their college. This ofcourse, is accompanied by a more-likely-false promise that they'd take maximum number of students possible when they come. Worse, they even assure the minimum number of students they are going to employ. This, they do without even knowing how good the students are! Few colleges which consider themselves capable enough of meeting their 'target' even without TCS don't care while other poor colleges whose placement officers generally lose hair worrying about how they would meet the 'target' set 'just-like-that' by their college's Principal or Secretary considering that the number of people who get jobs on campus this year would largely determine the demand for their college next year will completely surrender.
Second, they do not inform the exact date of interviews for each college till the nth moment. Students at college though not necessary, suffer from anxiety with plenty of rumors adding to their confusion. At my college, they said they'd come by November and they kept postponing and finally arrived in January. The number of people they employ would be always lesser than the number they promise. The placement officer, happy on one side that students under him got a job somehow, sad on the other side that TCS didn't keep up the promise, wouldn't know what to answer if someone asks him what emotion triggered him to drink so much that night.
They go around employing people in various colleges and once they are done, they start giving joining dates in 'batches'. Then the next phase of confusion begins. A was selected much before B but B was called first. X was too good in coding and was put into infrastructure services whereas C can't write C code and was taken for development team. The joining dates and the domains assigned are extremely random. Plus, they take almost a year and sometimes even more to announce joining dates.
Students on the other side complete their B.E/Btech, sit at home, waiting for the joining letter and gain weight. A few, somehow find a way to get a job outside and escape while most of them decide that they are going to stay at home till they are called thus wasting a year. Even worse, those who try to get a job somewhere else, if are expected to obtain a letter or something from college do not get it from college because TCS blackmails the college that if the students that they have so mercifully selected in a college join somewhere else, TCS shall not visit that college next year! So the placement officer tells ( this happened with me) "No No, I can't give you the letter. Go join TCS or get into some other company on your own if you can".
All those who get selected are entitled to sign a Rs 50,000 bond saying that they'd not leave the company before two years but generally, it is said that it wouldn't be a big problem if someone leaves in between. So I assume this whole bond-thing is only to scare people. Now one of my friends left the company after 3 months of training just before they were about to tell her the post-training work location. (TCS doesn't train people! they outsource it, at least for infrastructure services). She did it deciding we'll 'handle' whatever happens later. Now while I was waiting to see how TCS would react to this, there was no reaction for three months after which she got a notice saying she had to join immediately failing which action shall be taken. Not surprising I thought and asked her to ignore it. The surprise was something else. When she checked her salary-account balance just to see if her account is still active after three months, she noticed that her beloved company has been actually crediting her salary every month though she hasn't even reported to job! Poor kid, she doesn't know whether she can withdraw the amount now.
I've seriously doubted their standards right from my college days. There are hell lot of loopholes in their functioning specially when it comes to recruitment and post-recruitment formalities. I just hope they get them right someday. I'm waiting to see how they would deal with her now.
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